Friday June 21, 2013  "I was drinking a vampire's blood when the phone rang."

Story potential:  ?  I don't yet know what the phone call is about.

Stimulus:  Reading Down These Strange Streets, edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois.  It's a collection of original supernatural detective stories.  "Original" in the sense that they're not reprints; only three of the sixteen were original enough for my taste.

***Returning to the real world, there's an English politician who's certain his real mother was an alien.  Via nwhyte on LiveJournal:

Other people believe equally unlikely things, says Simon Parkes. And anyway, aliens know more about Whitby's needs than Scarborough council does
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/the-northerner/2012/mar/27/whitby-councillor-alien-mother-simon-parkes

***Seen at the Wedge Coop:  Crapola.  Cranberry-apple granola.